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2019-07-05

Let it go

Philippians 3:13 NIVUK

While we are holding on to the past, we won't be able to take hold of the future. When we dwell on the things we have done, and the things that have been done to us, we are not thinking about what God can do in the future. The enemy knows how destructive it can be for us to be focused on the past, so he will often try and keep it in our minds. It can be really hard to just stop thinking about things that have hurt us, or that we feel guilty about. When those thoughts come into our minds, we have a choice to make. Are we going to dwell on them and let the emotions they bring up control us? Or are we going to hand it over to God, and ask Him to help us forgive others, and ourselves? Before he met Jesus, Paul destroyed churches and put Christians to death. In his new life, he had to go back into some of those same towns, and see the people whose lives he had devastated. Had Paul not been able to move beyond his past, he would never have fulfilled his God-given assignment. These things would still have been in Paul's memory. But knowing God had forgiven him, and that he had forgiven himself, he chose to forget the past. 'But one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.' When we decide to forget, God will enable us to do it and give us the grace and peace to move on. If we are struggling with guilt, condemnation, shame, blame, or regret about our pasts, we need to let God forgive us, set us free, and enable us to move forward.

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